EMI

EMI is one of the world's leading music companies, home to some of the most successful and best known recording artists, songwriters and music catalogues.Through our own companies and network of licensees, we are able to serve our artists, writers and consumers all over the world.EMI has two operational divisions - EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing.EMI MusicEMI Music brings artists and fans together by driving action and creating value wherever music is experienced. To do this most effectively it is divided into three business units: New Music, Catalogue and Music Services.New Music finds and develops new, exciting and successful music. Its record labels include Angel, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Capitol, Capitol Nashville, EMI Classics, EMI CMG, EMI Records, EMI Televisa Music, Manhattan, Mute, Parlophone and Virgin. Artists on EMI labels include Lily Allen, The Beatles, Beastie Boys, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Doves, Gorillaz, Iron Maiden, Norah Jones, Massive Attack, Kylie Minogue, Katy Perry, Pink Floyd, Queen, Sir Simon Rattle, 30 Seconds To Mars, KT Tunstall, Keith Urban and Robbie Williams, as well as international artists such as Amaral (Spain), Camille (France), Empire of the Sun (Australia), Tiziano Ferro (Italy), Flex (Mexico), LaFee (Germany) and Utada Hikaru (Japan).
Catalogue maximises the value of EMI's historic and extensive music assets. Seminal albums in EMI Music's catalogue include Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane (David Bowie), Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (The Beatles), Pet Sounds (Beach Boys), A Rush Of Blood To The Head (Coldplay), Birth Of The Cool (Miles Davis), Come Away With Me (Norah Jones), Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall (Pink Floyd), A Night At The Opera (Queen), OK Computer (Radiohead) and Songs For Swingin' Lovers (Frank Sinatra). EMI Music's Catalogue division also owns and runs the world-renowned recording studios Abbey Road in London and Capitol Studios in Los Angeles.Music Services' mission is to provide EMI's roster of artists - as well as independent labels and artists - with a global menu of commercial services and seamless access to an expanding range of revenue streams and business models. It is focused on delivering revenues to EMI's artists, as well as to the independent label and artist community, and is the industry's only one-stop shop for accessing a global marketplace of traditional and non-traditional commercial partners. Music Services poves focus and solid execution can provide unique value to EMI's roster and associated artists in key functions like licensing, synch and distribution. EMI Music PublishingMusic publishing is the business of acquiring, protecting, administering and exploiting the rights in musical compositions. It is a business based on the songs themselves, as distinct from the recordings in which those songs are performed. Every commercial use of a musical composition requires a license and compensation to the songwriter and his or her publisher. The music publisher's role is to assure that the works it represents are used commercially, and to then ensure that proper remuneration is received in consideration for that use.EMI Music Publishing is the world's most creative music publisher, with one of the best collections of musical compositions and songwriters ever assembled. Active songwriters include James Blunt, the Arctic Monkeys, Alicia Keys, Duffy, Amy Winehouse, Hinder, Kanye West, Beyonce, Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z, Nelly Furtado, Norah Jones and Natasha Bedingfield. Among the iconic songs in the EMI Music Publishing catalogue are Bohemian Rhapsody, New York New York, You've Got A Friend, The James Bond Theme, Lady Marmalade, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Always On My Mind, Over The Rainbow, I Heard It Through The Grapevine and Singin' In the Rain. Our publishing catalogues include SBK (CBS Songs, MGM and United Artists), Filmtrax (Columbia Pictures & Television), Screen Gems, Virgin, Jobete (Motown) and Windswept PacificFor more information on EMI Music Publishing, their writers and catalogue, please visitwww.emimusicpub.comInnovationEMI traces its history back to the very beginnings of recorded sound and music as one of our original companies was founded by the inventor of the gramophone, Emile Berliner.Since then EMI has always been at the forefront of technology and change. EMI scientists invented stereo recording and were closely involved in the development of magnetic tape. They were also behind the birth of electrical television and radar. Given our heritage of innovation, when digital music began to take off in the 1990s, EMI was well placed to respond to the new trends. EMI Music's first websites went live in 1993 and 1994 and in 1998 EMI streamed the first complete album over the internet, Mezzanine by Massive Attack. The following year EMI was the first company to release a digital album download, David Bowie's …Hours. EMI also launched the first internet video single in 2001. In 2007 EMI became the first major music company to make its music available without digital rights management (DRM) software.Today EMI Music has agreements with hundreds of digital partners to distribute our music across the globe, covering a huge variety of digital music business models and ideas.OwnershipIn 2007 EMI was acquired by leading private equity partnership Terra Firma, making EMI the only privately-owned major music company.